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Peace Prayer, with tabla master Shantilal Shah, recorded live at Skipper's Smokehouse (2001, Groovewell Records) Read the St. Petersburg Times review The Uncertainty Principle, with trumpeter Jonathan Powell and saxophonist Untitled five-song studio CD* A Little Help From Our Friends: A Tribute to Benefit the WMNF Building Fund � “Within You, Without You”* Various Artists, Southeast Music Alliance Vol. 1: Tampa Bay � “Cracker Etiquette”* The Uncertainty Principle - more reviews: “One of the finest CDs I have ever heard in my life. The music takes me on my journeys to wherever that may be (emotionally and mentally) and it flows so well and seamlessly from the very beginning to the very end” - “Deadhead” Ed Greene, “The Freak Show,” WMNF-FM, Tampa “Just aural pleasure flooding my headphones � sort of Jon Hassell meets King Crimson, yet not quite. Moving wallscapes of sound, around, surround . and penetrate the inner seeing eye.” - Jeff Franklin, DJ, WUSF-FM, Tampa |
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Tampa jamband Ghetto Love Sugar,which broke up in 2002, is giving a reunion show Friday May 8, 2009 at Yeoman’s Road Pub in Tampa. GLS is on a bill with jazz/jam group Infinite Groove Orchestra and roots-reggae band Rocksteady@8. The occasion: Jonathan Priest, who played in all three bands and now lives in North Carolina, is in town to play a May 9 CD-release show with Dan Kincaid. Ghetto Love Sugar was something of a spin-off of the Jonathan Powell Quartet, which had the trumpeter backed by keyboardist/organist/EFX guy Raulton Reichel (Funk Like Whoa, Funky Plumbers), acoustic and electric bassist Philip Booth (Greenwich Blue, Bop City) and drummer Jonathan Priest (Infinite Groove Orchestra, Rocksteady@8, Tibetan Sound Orgy). After Jonathan Powell moved on to other projects and, eventually, to NYC, guitarist Joel Lisi, formerly of popular funk/fusion trio Beanstalk, joined Reichel, Booth and Priest. Ghetto Love Sugar gained a loyal, large following of jamband fans through Thursday-night gigs at King Corona Cigars on Seventh Avenue in Ybor City, followed by Thursday-night gigs at Yeoman’s Road Pub on Davis Islands. Along the way, GLS played Jannus Landing, opening for the Neville Brothers; the Clearwater Jazz Holiday; the Florida Music Harvest at Spirit of the Suwannee Park in Live Oak (along with high-profile jam bands); Booth and Priest along with Jim Beckwith, were also among the founding members of the jazz/spoken word project The Irritable Tribe of Poets, and those three musicians plus Lisi played on the Tribe's debut CD. Through Priest's Groovewell.com site, he and Booth and other partners put together an online resource for Tampa Bay area music. The site highlighted Ghetto Love Sugar and Rocksteady@8, but also provided a page exclusively devoted to WMNF Tropical Heatwave, and offered space for local musicians - including singer-songwriter Ronny Elliott and guitarist Vince Sims - to write columns on topics of their own choosing. Booth and Priest also presented a series of shows under the Groovewell Presents banner at the Orpheum in Ybor City. The members of GLS have continued to play with other projects - Booth with Trio Vibe and other groups; Lisi with the recently reunited Beanstalk and other bands; and Reichel with The Deeper Shade of Soul and Four Star Riot. Priest has been involved in an intensive course of study in Chinese medicine.
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(2002, Pure Tone Productions) 
The show starts at 9 p.m., and admission is $7. Yeoman’s Road Pub is at 236 E. Davis Blvd. on Davis Islands in Tampa.
